The power of life that is buried deep inside you will never rise up
until you have become convinced that you’re walking the only path open for you
Kosho Uchiyama, Soto Zen priest, 1912 – 1998
Tag: Life
Letting go of the desire to control
We can feel the possibility of balance in our lives,
when we recognize that life is not in our control
Jack Kornfield
Making space
In silence there is eloquence.
Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves.
Rumi
Impermanence and beauty
It’s true, I think, as Kenko says in his Idleness,
That all beauty depends upon disappearance,
The bitten edges of things,
the gradual sliding away
Into tissue and memory,
the uncertainty
And dazzling impermanence of days we beg our meanings from,
And their frayed loveliness.
Charles Wright, American poet, 1935 – , Lonesome Pine Special
(Kenko, 1284 – 1350, Buddhist monk, author of Essays in Idleness)
Give up defining yourself
Give up defining yourself – to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
Eckhart Tolle
Release
When we release that striving
for somewhere and something else,
we come home
Karen Maezen Miller
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